Elderly Hamtramck woman in hospital after shooting at police, standoff at home

10:59 PM,
Jan. 30, 2013

Written by

Tammy Stables Battaglia
Detroit Free Press Staff Writer

A Hamtramck woman in her 80s was hospitalized Wednesday after she barricaded herself in her home and shot at police officers during a five-hour standoff.

Hamtramck Police Chief Max Garbarino said the woman was scared and didn't seem to know what was going on during the incident, which began about 11 p.m. Tuesday on Selfridge Street in the Colonel Hamtramck Homes complex near Commor Street and I-75.

After holding police at bay for about five hours and taking four or five shots at officers with a shotgun, the woman surrendered early Wednesday after officers broke in her front door with an armored ...